中考英语高分作文素材：生存还是毁灭

中考英语高分作文素材：生存还是毁灭

Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous

in all the literature of the world. They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but also for every thinking man and woman. To be or not to be, to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely. A philosopher once wanted to know whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself occasionally. He answered it by saying： "I think, therefore am."

But the best definition of existence ever saw did another philosopher who said： "To be is to be in relations." If this true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive. To live abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity of our relations. Unfortunately we are so constituted that we get to love our routine. But apart from our regular occupation how much are we alive? If you are interest-ed only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent. So far as other things are concerned--poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports, unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs--you are dead.

Contrariwise, it is true that every time you acquire a new interest--even more, a new accomplishment--you increase your power of life. No one who is deeply interested in a large variety of subjects can remain unhappy; the real pessimist is the person who has lost interest.

Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by contacts, new friends. What is supremely true of living objects is only less true of ideas, which are also alive. Where your thoughts are, there will

your live be also. If your thoughts are confined only to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to the narrow circle of the town in which you live, then you live in a narrow cir-conscribed life. But if you are interested in what is going on in China, then you are living in China~ if

you’re interested in the characters of a good novel, then

you are living with those highly interesting people, if you listen intently to fine music, you are away from your immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion and imagination.

To be or not to be--to live intensely and richly, merely to exist, that depends on ourselves. Let widen and intensify our relations. While we live, let live!

译文：

生存还是毁灭

“生存还是毁灭。”如果把《圣经》除外，这六个字便是整个世

界文学中最有名的六个字了。这六个字是哈姆雷特一次喃喃自语时说的，而这六个字也就成了莎士比亚作品中最有名的几个字了，因为这

里哈姆雷特不但道出了他自己的心声，同时也代表了一切有思想的男

男女女。是活还是不活——是要生活还是不要生活，是要生活得丰满

充实，兴致勃勃，还是仅仅活得枯燥委琐，贫乏无味。一位哲人一次

曾想弄清他自己是否是在活着，这个问题我们每个人也大可不时地问

问我们自己。这位哲学家对此的答案是：“我思故我在。”